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Since her death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Sylvia Plath has become a strange icon---an object of intense speculation, fantasy, repulsion, and desire. Jacqueline Rose stands back from the debates and looks instead at the swirl of controversy, recognizing it as a phenomenon in itself--one with much to tell us about how a culture selects and judges writers; how we hear women's voices; and how we receive messages from, to, and about our unconscious selves.
- Sales Rank: #2829365 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Harvard University Press
- Published on: 1992-02-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.03" h x 6.43" w x 9.58" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
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As Rose demonstrates in her ambitious and original book, Plath has become one who 'haunts our culture'...Rose both reads Plath's writing for its multiplicity, its ghostly subtexts of ambiguity and fantasy, and discusses the ways in which she has become the object of critical fantasies and debates about femininity, violence and contemporary culture...Her goal is to repair both the blatant and the subtle editorial cuts made in the body of Plath's writing, to restore the poet's sexuality, anger and left-wing politics to the historical and aesthetic record...Rose's book is surely one of the most illuminating to date about the contradictions and the haunting power of the Plath legacy. (Elaine Showalter London Review of Books)
In her powerful new book, Jacqueline Rose refuses the temptation to lay claim to the 'truth' about Plath's work; in her illuminating readings of individual poems, she restores their ambiguity and sexuality, striving to 'stay with that anxiety and not resolve it.' (Voice Literary Supplement)
Working at the source, [Rose] transforms an existential dilemma (which is how most people read the Plath life and work) into a problem of knowledge. In a stroke, she redefines the debate...Her book is thrilling. (Manchester Guardian)
The Haunting of Sylvia Plath gives us a new Sylvia Plath, even more troubling and contradictory and compelling than the one we thought we knew, and more important for the ways we understand literature and its place in twentieth-century culture. Rose's book--original, deftly-argued, and bold both in its perceptions and in the materials it chooses to include--will render most existing criticism of Plath obsolete. (Stacy Carson Hubbard American Literature)
About the Author
Jacqueline Rose has written and lectured widely on feminism, psychoanalysis and culture. She is the author of The Case of Peter Pan, or The Impossibility of Children's Fiction, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, Why War? - psychoanalysis, politics and the return to Melanie Klein and States of Fantasy, the 1994 Clarendon Lectures. The Haunting of Sylvia Plath received wide critical acclaim on its publication in 1991. She has a chair in English at Queen Mary University of London. She lives in London.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful.
Very Interesting Study of Plath
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I bought a used version of this book because I wasn't sure if I would like it or not. I was pleasantly surprised and impressed. I have not read tons of Plath criticism, but I felt this was the first I have read to really articulate what makes her poetry so compelling for me. Chapter Two on Orality and Writing I thought was just deadly accurate about Plath's work. I kept thinking, "Exactly! Wonderful!" Rose takes a few psychoanalytic ideas from Kristeva and Freud and makes them really work--this chapter should be a model for how to use psychoanalytic theory in interpreting literature in a productive and succinct way. I would have liked to see this chapter expanded--the ideas in it can be a little dense and quick (like Plath) and I would have liked to see Rose expand this to an analysis of more poems. I felt truly enlightened after reading this. The fourth chapter on Plath, feminism and fantasy is also excellent: Rose gave me so much to think about. She really opened up a way to read Plath again and she negotiated the question of Plath's relation to feminism very well. (To me) her ideas were unique and original.
My only criticism is that throughout I would have liked to see Rose analyze more poems. This book in fact struck me as a blueprint or outline for what should be a longer, more extensive analysis of the work. But overall, it will leave you inspired to do your own readings of Plath. I feel grateful for the provocative and helpful insights of this book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Good, but not Perfect
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This reprint of The Haunting of Sylvia Plath seems the right time for me to post a review, and I am honored to be the first.
Jacqueline Rose's The Haunting of Sylvia Plath is extremely valuable to the Plath fan and scholar, pointing out details often ignored and making some keen observations. Perhaps the most important statement of all in this book is that up until now Plath has been shaped by Ted Hughes and other critics, and never owned the facts of her own life. The author points out that while Hughes and his sister Olwyn have been vicious in their omissions and excisions, as well as their slant on the story (Rose calls it Olwyn's "systematic assault on Plath" on page 93), it may not be these things that are problematic as much as it is what was published that Plath never intended to share. Letters Home, for example, was not just the trust between Plath and her mother, but also Plath's careful manipulation of words to keep her mother content and unworried. The Journals were intended always to be private, and Plath would likely have felt violated in knowing they would be published one day. Ultimately, Rose rightly states that a single image of Sylvia Plath is impossible due to the multiplicity of representations of her through Journals, letters, novels, short stories, essays and poetry.
Rose discusses the guilty behavior of everyone around Sylvia Plath after her death: the strange edits that shape her character and cast Hughes differently, such as the party when they met. Hughes' theft of her hairband and earring is taken out, but the bite Plath gave to his cheek is left in. He is shown as merely charming, and she is blood-thirsty. Also left out were intensely positive moments, where Plath idealized Hughes. Plath's politics were also downgraded from her work, probably as they were too leftist.
Plath also censored herself, and Rose talks about this endless re-writing seen in poetic drafts, in stories that became poems, and more.
There is much attention on the bizarre tell-all relationship between Plath and her mother, and the strange "cancellations" of bad events and feelings through writing that Aurelia and Sylvia Plath shared.
The Bell Jar is its own problem. Hughes called it a work of fiction, under oath. Rose notes that Aurelia Plath did not believe the Bell Jar was the voice of Plath's "true self," and she presents the Victoria Lucas pseudonym as proof. Still, by all evidence it is mostly autobiography, presented as a "potboiler" to sell, and Plath had always intended to make money writing salable stories.
Rose gives many reasons to doubt what has long been presented as fact, due to small changes from one biography to another, assumptions that have been made with no evidence to back them up, and more. Plath's money situation at the time of her separation from Hughes is a glaring example. It presents her on one side as nearly destitute, on another as cashing in on Hughes, and the truth was likely somewhere in between. Rose contends, however, that money broke Plath down nearly as much as anything else.
Rose's strongest focus in The Haunting of Sylvia Plath is the feminist angle, and she has a lot of good things to say. She takes editor/poet Peter Davison and author Anne Stevenson to task for slut-shaming. Rose smartly juxtaposes Plath with Freud and psychoanalytic theory, and she spends a good deal of time picking apart the feminist aspects of Plath's poems. Still, the poetic analysis here is not as strong as the author's fine perceptions about Plath and what was going on around her. It is a good book, but not a perfect one.
5 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
Harrowing
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This is a fascinating account of the controversal life and death of one of America and England's most wondered-about poets. Gives many new details and fresh insights. Highly recommended!
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